Assignment 2

Assignment 2 is a pair work and we are supposed to come out with two complete lesson plans for the primary classroom. My pair and I decided to divide our work as usual to make things easier. We have to use two video clips to use in our lesson. The first one is given by our lecture while the second one have to be found by us. So after much exploration in youtube, eventually I found a video entitled ' One two buckle my shoe'. It is a rhyme which contains numbers and the rhyming sentences for those numbers. I personally feel that it is very suitable to conduct reading lesson in the classroom. Since the video has two parts in it, it would be easy for teacher to divide the class into two and elect a group a role to read. Kids would love it because it is a new approach of reading. Add to the point, children will develop sense of competence by reading in group to perform their best. The entire process of attempting this assignment 2 wasd quite heavy for me because i got to prepare lesson plans and teaching materials and at the same time i had other course assingments to be done. But i took all that as a challenge and did my works by managing my time wisely. The next assignment is coming up and it sounds more challenging when the lecture gave us the description of it. Another big brigde to be crossed.

The Four Skills-Mine READING

We were required to be in groups of 4 and develop a lesson and activities for the chosen skill. As for me, i got reading skill. So, i decided to do e-book since it is very effective to deliver input in a more systematic and organised way. At the same time, pupils will enjoy and have fun with it since they are new to such materials. It is beyond the everyday classroom learning. Since the topic of my group is 'People', i planned to do about family because it is authentic and so much related to the pupils' real life. I explored deeply on a selected family where i introduced the family members and their interest. This can enable the pupils to connect the ideas to their own families. The journey into the process of completing my e-book and activities was just fine. I explored the pictures in yahoo image and add in animations of people to make the e-book lively. Not forgetting the fonts and background colour for the e-book.I feel that these elements play great role in a delivery of a lesson. I believe that students can be influenced by their emotions by looking at these elements. If a dull and dim colours are applied on the slides, for sure the pupils will be demotivated to even look at it.So, i tried my level best to make my e-book as colourful as possible by attaching animated pictures and wordings.

E-Book!

A new term is added into our resourse world. The "E-BOOK"! Actually, it sounds quite difficult and plenty of questions were cracking my head before i was actually exposed to it, but once we went through the lectures and some examples about it, it was not that BAD! I felt quite a kind of relief. Since, it was a pair work, i and my previous pair for video editing, Yana, joined again to make things much easier. Then, we took approximately one day for planning and discussion on what topic to be chosen. We came out with the topic "How do I go to school? ". It is very relevent to the primary pupils because it reflects on their real life. So, in my view, i believe that, pupils will pay more attention towards this topic. To add to the point, we tried our best to make our e-book the most colourful and attractive one by adding animations and audio music as to grab and remain their concentration towards the lesson.We somehow did it quite well...Since, the duration for this task felt on holidays, we divided the jobs equally and kept updating our work in e-mail and yahoo messenger. It helped us to keep track of our work.Then, after a while we got to know that we are to add story board and print out a copy of our e-book. With a rush, we were able to complete them as well. And at last, today we managed to compile the entire thing..